1753 in science
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The year 1753 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus on May 1, adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants.
- Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod, to ring a bell when struck by lightning, following the 1752 kite/key tests with his 21-year-old son.
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[edit] Births
- March 26 - Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Anglo-American physicist (died 1814)
- April 28 - Franz Karl Achard, chemist (died 1821)
- August 3 - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, engineer (died 1816)
[edit] Deaths
- August 6 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (born 1711)
